The Chemistry Department's 400 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer (NMR) utilizes a superconducting magnet cryostated at 4 Kelvin to probe the structure of organic and organometallic molecules.

Major Equipment Holdings in the Department of Chemistry General Specific Manufacturer & Model Spectrometers Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Bruker Avance DPX 400 (400MHz) with z-axis gradient and 2 multinuclear probes Liquid Chromatograph-Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer Varian 500MS Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer Hewlett-Packard 5973c and 5971A Atomic Absorption Varian 220FS Ultraviolet/Visible Cary 5000, Hewlett-Packard 8453 Diode Array, (10) Beckman DU 650, (14) Ocean Optics Diode Array Infrared Nicolet iS10, Nicolet Magna 550, Nicolet Impact 400, Mattson 5020 Fluorescence (HORIBA Jobin Yvon FluoroMax, (2) Perkin-Elmer LS50B, Perkin-Elmer LS5 Circular Dichromism Olis/Cary 16 Chromatographs Gas HP 5890, 5880A; Varian 3800 High Performance Liquid (2) Beckman System Gold; HP 1090; Waters A-500; BioRad BioLogic LP; GE Healthcare AKTA FPLC Ion Dionex 4500i Electrochemical Potentiostats/Analyzers EG&G 264A, 273A, 303A, 263; BAS CV27 Capillary Electrophoresis Beckman-Coulter P/ACE MDQ Surface-Science Scanning Tunneling Microscope NanoScope II, NanoScope E Atomic Force Microscope NanoScope III, NanoScope II, NanoScope E Scanning Electron Microscope Topcon 2000/PGT w/EDS Langmuir-Blodgett Trough KSV 5000 Thermal Differential Scanning Calorimeter Perkin-Elmer DSC VII, Perkin-Elmer DSC II Microstill Perkin-Elmer M131T Osmometer Hewlett-Packard Quartz Thermometer Hewlett-Packard Optical Polarimeter Jasco P-1010 Polarizing Microscope Olympus BH-2 Light Scattering Light Scattering Photometer Wyatt Dawn EOS with Optilab Refractive Index Detector Vacuum Glove Box Braun UNIlab Vacuum Atmospheres HE-193-1 Freeze-Dryer FTS Systems Biochemical Ultracentrifuge Sorvall RC2-B, Beckman J2-HS Lasers Argon Ion/Dye Coherent Inova 90 Nitrogen/Dye PTI, PSI Helium/Cadmium Omnichrome Helium/Neon Spectra Physics Optical Parametric Oscillator Opotek Vibrant Tunable Laser System Computational Workstations (5) Dell Precision 530 dual 2.20 GHz Xeon processor Linux workstations